Technology

Policies to encourage financial technology have had bipartisan support thus far.

Mobile phones are only going to become a bigger part of how banks interact with their customers, so several institutions are looking to enhance that experience. They are focusing on better ways of opening accounts, verifying identities, interacting with customers and offering new services and features. Here are some of the improvements announced this year.

While remittances may pose higher risks than services like bill pay, they are absolutely necessary in an age of unprecedented migration. It's high time state and federal regulators update the rules to help inspire banks to re-risk.

Merchants without chip card readers are reporting that a few malicious customers have figured out how to game the system.

Any company that uses point of sale systems or technology is at risk.

The president-elect's policies on taxes, offshoring, surveillance and other issues will affect bank technology officers and their vendors in a variety of ways. The positives may slightly outweigh the negatives.

PayPal has added support for Apple Inc.’s Siri voice-command feature for person-to-person payments, following Apple's decision to open Siri to third-party developers.

ACT Canada has named Suzan Denoncourt, the country's managing director at Ingenico Group, to be co-chair of its board.

A Trump presidency might very well accelerate recent efforts to adapt banking regulation to the rise of fintech.

Platforms designed for face-to-face or paper transactions may not be the best enabler of payments through connected devices, but a system born out of the digital payments world could fare better.